Another popular theory states that viruses evolved from degenerated bacteria or archaea that lost most of the genetic instructions for carrying out metabolism and forming cells. There are many ...

Bacterial superantigens (sAg) have been shown to induce T cell hyperactivation through cross linking between MHC class II on antigen presenting cells and certain TCRs on T lymphocytes. Here the ...

Cancer Research Center, Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory for Diagnosis, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Cancer in Chinese Medicine, Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine, No. 1688 Meiling Avenue, ...

Paronychia is a type of nail infection, most commonly caused by the bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus, which affects the skin around the nail (called nail folds). It can also occur as a result of ...

Vampire bats have become such specialized bloodsuckers that they metabolize their food more like some blood-feeding flies than like other known mammals, a new experiment shows. The common vampire ...

Summary: New research has unveiled how gut bacteria play a key role in regulating stress by interacting with circadian ... paving the way for new therapeutic approaches targeting the gut-brain axis.

Eco-friendly and biodegradable plastic using bacteria has been developed at the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños, according to the report of Martin Javier for Game Changer on "24 Oras" on ...

This manuscript is a valuable contribution to our understanding of foraging behaviors in marine bacteria. The authors present a conceptual model for how ... changes the expression of genes involved in ...